United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit challenging Illinois rules for the provision of residential habilitation services, one plaintiff's appeal is dismissed as moot where a purported class was not certified before plaintiff's personal claim became moot. Judgment for defendants is affirmed where a state does not violate federal Medicaid law by using the criteria that formed part of the basis for requesting a waiver for a program in order to determine eligibility.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/2007
• Decided 07/24/2007
• Published 07/24/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert H. Farley, Jr. (argued), Naperville, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Kendra K. Hartman, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal Chicago, IL, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary E. Welsh (argued), Brett E. Legner, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.